Seahawks’ Legion of Boom to be honored in ‘Madden’ game

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The Legion of Boom is shown on the welcome screen of the upcoming “Madden 15″ video game. (Courtesy image/Electronic Arts)

Electronic Arts has heard calls from Seahawks fans — and even Richard Sherman himself — to include the Legion of Boom on the cover of the upcoming “Madden” NFL video game, announcing a compromise this weekend to honor Seattle’s vaunted secondary.

While Earl Thomas, Kam Chancellor and Byron Maxwell won’t be joining Sherman on the cover of “Madden 15,” EA said Saturday that the Legion of Boom will be featured on the game’s welcome screen. As the game developer noted in a blog post, that screen is usually reserved for the cover art.

Richard Sherman is seen on the cover of “Madden 15,” due for release Aug. 26. (Promotional image/Electronic Arts)

When the game is released Aug. 26, Sherman will be the second Seahawks player (after Shaun Alexander on “Madden 07″) to be featured on the cover of the popular “Madden” series. Sherman won a month-long online voting contest in June, netting a total of 9.6 million votes throughout a campaign to decide this year’s “Madden” cover honoree.

Yet shortly after Sherman was announced the winner, he said he was fighting to get the entire Legion of Boom on the cover. Seahawks fans followed suit, going so far as to start Change.org petitions asking EA to change the cover.

Nevertheless, a month ago Sherman’s “Madden” cover leaked to the Web, featuring only the celebrated cornerback. In its Saturday blog post, EA explained that it was too late to change the cover, as game art must be shared with the developer’s business partners months before the game’s release.

By the time they received it, it was two months later than what they’d been used to for so many years, which prevented us from making any changes. We wish we could have given the fans exactly what they asked for after the Cover Vote ended, but we wanted to make sure you understood why it was difficult.

Now the good news! We wanted to give the LOB their just due, and do it in a way that was special—a way where millions of fans would see it every single day, just like a cover. Historically, the start screen in Madden (and all our EA SPORTS games) has featured our cover art. This year, we’re going to feature the entire Legion of Boom on the welcome screen. One of the major areas of focus for Madden NFL 15 is defense, and what better way to introduce you to the game than with the guys who are changing the face of defense in the NFL.